{"id":353892,"date":"2010-02-20T17:04:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T22:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22877"},"modified":"2010-02-20T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T22:04:53","slug":"fbi-probes-us-school-webcam-%e2%80%98spy%e2%80%99-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/353892","title":{"rendered":"FBI Probes US School Webcam \u2018Spy\u2019 Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"FBI\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/FBI_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"193\" \/>An update to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/2010\/02\/high-school-spied-on-students-at-home-via-their-laptops\">this story<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/world\/1014907\/fbi-probes-us-school-webcam-spy-case?rss=yes\">MSN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;\">The FBI is investigating a  Pennsylvania school district officials accused of secretly activating  webcams inside students&#8217; homes, a law enforcement official with  knowledge of the case told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI will  explore whether Lower Merion School District officials broke any federal  wiretap or computer-intrusion laws, said the official, who spoke on  condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Days after a student filed a suit over the  practice, Lower Merion officials acknowledged on Friday that they  remotely activated webcams 42 times in the past 14 months, but only to  find missing student laptops. They insist they never did so to spy on  students, as the student&#8217;s family claimed in the federal lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Families  were not informed of the possibility the webcams might be activated in  their homes without their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update to this story. From MSN: The FBI is investigating a Pennsylvania school district officials accused of secretly activating webcams inside students&#8217; homes, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press. The FBI will explore whether Lower Merion School District officials broke any federal wiretap or computer-intrusion laws, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}